ness
Psychoanalytic
Academicians can vie for
training scholarship grants.
T
he Michigan Psychoanalytic of the fund's existence, donated
Institute is offering scholar- $200,000 to the fund.
The money will be used to help
ship grants for academi-
defray training expenses of personal
cians (professors, scholars, teachers
analyses and tuition. MPI has had a
and graduate students in non-
small program to train academics,
clinical fields) who are interested
but few could undergo the training
in obtaining psychoanalytic train-
ing. These MPI grants are available
because of the financial burden. The
donation makes it possible to give
through the Alexander Grinstein
grants — not loans — to interested
Interdisciplinary Award Fund.
academics. The fund offers need-
The first grant
was awarded in
based grants of up to $20,000 — with
additional funding possible — to
September to
those applicants who are accepted as
Jorgelina Corbatta,
academic candidates at MPI.
professor of
Hispanic literature
"Our Academic Associate training
track consists of personal analysis
at Wayne State
plus a curriculum of theoretical and
University, Detroit.
Deanna
clinical seminars:' Holtzman said.
"Colleagues and
Holtzman
"We also offer full clinical training
friends created a
memorial fund to
that includes a personal analysis
and the experience of conducting
honor Alexander Grinstein, M.D.,
clinical psychoanalysis under super-
who died last year:' said Deanna
vision."
Holtzman, Ph.D., a training and
Training sched-
supervising analyst
ules
are flexible.
at MPI where she
The
intent is
chairs academic
to
qualify
its
programs. "He
graduates
to
was a well-known
undertake
more
Freud scholar and
psychoanalytically
a prolific writer
informed research,
and researcher
teaching, and
with a strong inter-
scholarly work
est in literature
in their primary
and applied psy-
discipline through
choanalysis, who
their study of
achieved promi-
psychoanalysis in
nence in the psy-
depth. "Our hope
choanalytic world
Holtzman said, "is
both nationally
that the scholars
and internation-
who obtain this
ally."
Grinstein corn-
- MPI's Deanna Holtzman dual training will
be a living bridge
piled the Index
between psychoanalysis and other
of Psychoanalytic Writings, which
disciplines. Thus psychoanalysis, as
was the only way to do research
a vital intellectual discipline, will be
in the field before the Internet.
closely tied to present-day clinical
Interdisciplinary work by scholars
practice and not be viewed as an
trained in psychoanalysis was dear
intellectual theory divorced from
to his heart.
"He was passionately interested
clinical practice."
in seeing that academic candidates
Dr. Holtzman is an associate professor
who could not afford analysis and
training would be helped to do so,"
in the department of medicine at Wayne
State University and a clinical professor
Holtzman said.
of psychology at the University of Detroit.
An anonymous donor, who knew
She is a widely published author and co-
of Grinstein's desire to promote
author of several psychoanalytic books
scholarship through training aca-
demic candidates and became aware and scholarly articles.
"Our hope is
that the scholars
who obtain this
dual training
will be a living
bridge between
psychoanalysis and
other disciplines."
Trouble With Boys
The annual Alicia Joy Techner Memorial
Parenting Conference and Temple Israel
will present Peg Tyre 7:30 p.m. Thursday,
Dec. 10, at the temple, 5725 Walnut Lake
Road, West Bloomfield.
Her presentation is titled "The Trouble
With Boys: A Surprising Report Card on
Our Sons, Their Problems at School and
What Parents & Educators Must Do."
Tyre is a prize-winning investigative
reporter and the author of the book The
Trouble With Boys.
The conference is open to the com-
munity, free of charge; reservations are
requested.
For information, contact Elaine Bertsch:
elaine@temple-israel.org or (248) 661-
5700.
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